Wil — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:42:41 +0000

Sorry for the confusion. I use the term "layers" loosely. I am merely layering tables on top of each other (which is supported since Netscape 2

I wouldn't use any DHTML for this site as a large percentage of my target audience would not be able to use it.

Rgds

ktown — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:48:09 +0000

Hey Megan!

Yeah i don't have time to fight with that one anymore... fixed width it is!

Megan — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:45:42 +0000

It still seems to be overlapping here in Opera 6. I think that you could fix this by just making it all one table instead of nesting the ad table inside the larger table. That should work I think.

ktown — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:45:10 +0000

cool bud

Nice design by the way... Yeah after Nuttscrape decided to mess up all alignment I've gone with the fixed width routine

Instead of layers i think you could also use a "huge" background in your pages... i'm not sure what versions of browsers support layers...

a few of our users are international so i have to stay away from that, bandwith & support wise

oh well...

full screen is nice, but can be a real pain in the butt when you have something on the far right of your main cell :/... anyways... thanks a lot

good luck

Wil — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:33:23 +0000

No. BUT...

The trick I use is to stretch the underlying layer, and then use a fixed-width on the top layer.

I'm actually trying this out on a new site, check out:

http://beta.geo-drws.co.uk

To see what I mean. The background color stretches all across the page, but the actual data stays to a set width.

ktown — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:41:06 +0000

but then the page won't stretch right?

Wil — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:31:44 +0000

If I was you I wouldn't define percentage of screen widths. I would define them in actual pixels or whatever your measurement units are, that way you can make sure that your page will display exactly the same on a 27" monitor as it would on a 14" monitor.

ktown — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 15:08:49 +0000

Woo Hoo!!!

I fixed it
I'm not sure exactly how, but i just rebuild the html from scratch cutting and pasting... so i guess i just had a slop somewhere the first time.

thx

ktown — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:34:21 +0000

Hey Detox,

Thanks for the quick reply. I'm not sure that we are talking about the same thing though.

If you try and make the size of your browser window smaller you will see that the 'about' title gif begins to overlap the little table on the right... and i want for it to 'stop' when the table hits the gif

work in progres..

Thanks again.

detox — Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:18:46 +0000

you can set td widths to whatever size you want (theoretically anyway!)

To make sure of constraining the width of your cell, specify the width and add this to the table properties:
style="table-layout:fixed"

this is ie safe I think, but I don;t know about crossbrowser. I will check that out......